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RIDGE VIEW ECHO

RIDGE VIEW ECHO (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $350,000 to it, the largest being NEW JERSEY CIVIC INFORMATION CONSORTIUM A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ($330,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$162k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$350k
Net assets
$172k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 69%
01What it does

What Ridge View Echo does

Mission

Local newspaper operations formed for the purpose of aiding and informing the local community of news, events, issues and information related to public health and safety.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Local newspaper operations formed for the purpose of aiding and informing the local community of news, events, issues and information related to public health and safety.

    $94,042 spentof which $150,500 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $94,042.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($145k) Expenses 100 ($64k) Net assets 100 ($105k)2024 Revenue 112 ($162k) Expenses 147 ($94k) Net assets 165 ($172k)
20232024
Revenue (112)Expenses (147)Net assets (165)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $105k to $172k (+65%).

$105k
$172k
20232024
Total assets

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

93% of RIDGE VIEW ECHO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$81k
’23
$68k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of RIDGE VIEW ECHO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

RIDGE VIEW ECHO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund RIDGE VIEW ECHO.

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

94% of RIDGE VIEW ECHO's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

NJ
DE

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RIDGE VIEW ECHO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin42% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like RIDGE VIEW ECHO

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds RIDGE VIEW ECHO?
RIDGE VIEW ECHO (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $350,000 to it, the largest being NEW JERSEY CIVIC INFORMATION CONSORTIUM A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ($330,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RIDGE VIEW ECHO have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $350,000 in grants to RIDGE VIEW ECHO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RIDGE VIEW ECHO?
NEW JERSEY CIVIC INFORMATION CONSORTIUM A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $330,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RIDGE VIEW ECHO find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing